Geographic positioning of the Scene to main Blender #79420

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Emanuele Gissi · 2020-07-31T11:18:46+02:00

Emanuele Gissi commented

2020-07-31 11:18:46 +02:00

First of all, thank you very much for the Sun position addon.

System Information
Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04
Graphics card: Intel

Blender Version
Broken: v.2.83.3 and previous ones

Addon Information
Name: Sun Position (3, 1, 0)
Author: Michael Martin

Short description of error
There is a growing number of addons for architectural or landscape visualisation, or for scientific purpose, that need the precise geographic positioning of the Scene, as implemented in this Sun position addon.

See for example: BlenderGIS, BlenderFDS, Blender-osm, ...

Currently each addon has to duplicate the effort, adding its own geo positioning management of the Scene. And all these geo positionings are incompatible.

I suggest moving the Location panel of the Sun position addon and its latitude/longitude properties to main Blender, so that geo positioning info can be shared by all the addons.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Enable the Sun position addon, and all the addons that need latitude/longitude properties.
A miryad of Scene latitude/longitude panels get created, and are all incompatible and confusing.

First of all, thank you very much for the *Sun position* addon. **System Information** Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 Graphics card: Intel **Blender Version** Broken: v.2.83.3 and previous ones **Addon Information** Name: Sun Position (3, 1, 0) Author: Michael Martin **Short description of error** There is a growing number of addons for architectural or landscape visualisation, or for scientific purpose, that need the precise geographic positioning of the Scene, as implemented in this *Sun position* addon. See for example: [BlenderGIS](https:*github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS), [BlenderFDS](https:*github.com/firetools/blenderfds28x), [Blender-osm](https://gumroad.com/l/blender-osm), ... Currently each addon has to duplicate the effort, adding its own geo positioning management of the Scene. And all these geo positionings are incompatible. I suggest moving the `Location panel` of the *Sun position* addon and its latitude/longitude properties to main Blender, so that geo positioning info can be shared by all the addons. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Enable the Sun position addon, and all the addons that need latitude/longitude properties. A miryad of Scene latitude/longitude panels get created, and are all incompatible and confusing.

Emanuele Gissi commented

2020-07-31 11:18:47 +02:00

Added subscriber: @emanuelegissi

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2020-07-31 11:28:52 +02:00

Added subscriber: @brecht

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2020-07-31 11:28:52 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Archived'

Brecht Van Lommel closed this issue

2020-07-31 11:28:52 +02:00

Brecht Van Lommel self-assigned this 2020-07-31 11:28:52 +02:00

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2020-07-31 11:28:52 +02:00

For user feedback and suggestions, please use other channels:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Communication/Contact#User_Feedback_and_Requests

For user feedback and suggestions, please use other channels: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Communication/Contact#User_Feedback_and_Requests

Emanuele Gissi commented

2020-07-31 11:35:23 +02:00

Ok, sorry.
As the Sun position addon is officially supported, I considered it a bug to have the very useful generic latitude/longitude properties reserved to sun positioning.
Thanks again

Ok, sorry. As the Sun position addon is officially supported, I considered it a bug to have the very useful generic latitude/longitude properties reserved to sun positioning. Thanks again

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Geographic positioning of the Scene to main Blender #79420